Providence Medical Institute, a Southern California-based physician services division of the seven-state Providence health system, will pay a $240,000 civil monetary penalty to settle potential HIPAA violations after a ransomware attack.WHY IT MATTERSThe U.S….
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Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust has partnered with patient engagement platform (PEP) supplier DrDoctor with the aim of helping operational and clinical teams to manage and scale hybrid patient pathways.
The platform, which…
The Assistant Secretary for Technology Policy within the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology has published its final 2024-2030 Federal Health IT Strategy, which seeks to enhance care delivery and experiences…
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Vicky Britton, Associate Principal of Social Media Intelligence
The vast amount of data available to patients and consumers—from web sources, social media, wearables, and AI chatbots—has democratized health information on an unprecedented scale. This shift…
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The New York Times covers physician use of Epic’s In Basket Art to create draft responses to patient questions that have been submitted using MyChart. Some major health systems decided not to use the…
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This week, the Assistant Secretary for Technology Policy/Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (formerly known as ONC), published its 2024 Draft Federal FHIR Action Plan. ASTP is billing the new document as…
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As state agencies and healthcare providers face increasing demands to address behavioral health (BH) needs across the U.S., interoperability challenges continue to stand in the way.
Manual reporting processes, siloed systems and duplicative data entry…
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Integration of HMIS, other HIS portals soughtIndia’s Union Health secretary Apurva Chandra has called for the integration of the country’s Health Management Information System with other health information systems in the public sector.
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Join the Assistant Secretary for Financial Resources (ASFR) and the Assistant Secretary for Technology Policy for an overview of ASFR’s proposed rule, the HHS Acquisition Regulation: Acquisition of Information Technology; Standards for Health Information…
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Making health data more accessible to patients – not to mention doctors and health plans – is a priority for all hospitals and health systems today, as the final Centers for Medicare and Medicaid…
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